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RAIL-JOINT.

Specicaton of Letters Patent.

Patented April 24, 1906.

Application filed March 27, 1905. Serial No. 252.342.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JUDsoN B. LOB'INGIER, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rail-Joints, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

I his invention has relation to certain new and useful improvements in rail-joints, and has for its object the provision of novel means whereby the adjacent sections of rails may be secured together and to the cross-ties.

Briefly described, the invention comprises two straight flat metallic plates having eyes on their ends, which platesA are laid against the web of the rail, oneon each side thereof, and receive spikes orpointed rods which pass through holes in the head of the rail and holes in the base of the same and are driven into the cross-tie.

I have illustrated the inventionin the accompanying drawings, in which* Figure is a pers ective view of portions with my improvements applied thereto. :Fig Zis a top plan view. Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view on the line a; :c of Fig. 4, and Fig. 4 is a vertical sectional view on the line fy y of Fig. 2.

My improvement is designed to be applied to rails of the ordinary form, and portions of two meeting ends of the saine' are shown in the drawings and designated by numerals 1 2. These rails comprise the usual head 3, web 4, and base 5. The ends of the rail-sections are out off square and rest upon a cross-tie, and adjacent the abutting end each rail is pierced on both sides of the ceni trai web for the reception of pointed rods or spikes 6 6. The holes through which these spikes pass extend through the heads 3 3 of the rails and through the bases 5 5 thereof, and the spikes are of such .length that when driven home into the tie 7 their tops will be Hush with the upper surfaces of the heads of the rails. The rods or spikew 6 are of such length that they will penetrate the cross-tie 7 a suiiicient depth to -firmly secure the railsections down upon the cross-ties. In orderto secure a proper connection of the rail-sections and to give additional securing means to that afforded by the spikes or rods-6 6, I provide two straight flat plates S 8, each of which is formed with an eye 9 at each end, and these plates are placed on opposite sides of the webs of the two rail-sections and across the joint prior to the insertion of the spikes 6 6, and'the spikes when inserted in the holes of therails are passed through eyes 9 9 of the plates 8 8. These plates 8 S are formed of any suitable material, preferably steel, and they are of such width that their upper and lower edges, respectively, will contact with the lower side of the heads of the rail-sections and the bases of the same, and the should be of sufficient thickness to stand t ie longitudinal strain which will be imposed upon them.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new,and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is I 1. The combination with two rail-sections each having two holes extending through the head and the base of the rail on opposite sides of the web, of two plates arranged one on each side of the web, each plate having eyes at its ends and pointed rods or spikes extending through the holes in the rail-sections and through the eyes at the ends of said plates, and into a cross-tie.

2. In a rail-joint, the combination with two rail-sections, each having holes extending through the head and the base of the rail, of a plate formed with eyes at its ends, and rods or spikes extending through the said eyes theholes in the heads and bases of the rail-sections and into a tie, the upper ends of said rods or spikes being Hush with the upper surfaces of the rail-section. l

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two Witnesses. l

, JUDSON B. LOBINGIER.

Vitnesses:

K. H. BUTLER, E. E. POTTER. 

